Are you saying it's out of the realm of possibility that the only reason this happened was because he was black?

Yes, this happened because he refused to leave an "employees only" area of the bank building. Where he was, in a skyway is absolutely a public place, as according to St. Paul/Minneapolis city ordinance, all skyway's in the city are public access. There's a Facebook page, inviting the public to sit in the very area he was chased out of. Read the comments on the Facebook page and you'll that the city ordinance is a well known thing in Minneapolis.

Who's victim blaming?

Are you saying that it's out of the realm of possibility that there may be some other reason why this happened other than he's black?

Is he the first black guy to ever sit in that section of the skyway? If not, have all the others had the cops called on them? Or if this is an isolated incident, then what triggered a call to the cops for him, and not for any other blacks who have ever been there?

Are you saying it's out of the realm of possibility that the only reason this happened was because he was black?

Yes, this happened because he refused to leave an "employees only" area of the bank building. Where he was, in a skyway is absolutely a public place, as according to St. Paul/Minneapolis city ordinance, all skyway's in the city are public access. There's a Facebook page, inviting the public to sit in the very area he was chased out of. Read the comments on the Facebook page and you'll that the city ordinance is a well known thing in Minneapolis.

Who's victim blaming?

Are you saying that it's out of the realm of possibility that there may be some other reason why this happened other than he's black?

Is he the first black guy to ever sit in that section of the skyway? If not, have all the others had the cops called on them? Or if this is an isolated incident, then what triggered a call to the cops for him, and not for any other blacks who have ever been there?

Well, let's look at the evidence we have.

We know it was a public area where anyone was welcome to sit.
We know that the guard told him it was private and asked him to leave.
We have statements from others saying that they have sat there without being hassled.
We have the video of Lollie legally refusing a request and being arrested for it.
We know the charges were immediately dropped.

To me, that looks like Lollie did nothing wrong and the police ****** up. How does it look to you?

Posted by The Taint on 9/2/2014 11:45:00 AM (view original):And yes victim blaming. This guy did nothing wrong but you keep throwing up question after question even after his story was corroborated by a witness. (Reason for charges being dropped).

And did it ever occur to you that maybe some racist citizen caused the ruckus by calling the cops in the first place? And the cops were just responding to a call about a disruptive person refusing to leave, hence their aggression?

If you were sitting in front of a bank, and I called the cops saying "Some white (or whatever you are) guy is in front of the bank wearing a jersey with 'Taint' on the back, and I think I saw a gun", do you think they'd be gentle and peaceful picking you up?

It's pretty likely that the ruckus was caused by (a) whoever called it in (have we heard the call?), (b) a guy with a chip on his shoulder, who knows his rights, and is willing to get tased to make a point, and (c) taser-happy cops who were told that some guy was trespassing and refusing to leave.